morale

Borrowed from French moral.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs morale was at an all time low, they were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

• esprit de corps

• → Welsh: morâl

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

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morale f (plural morales)

1. Ethics, morality

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

• “morale” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin mōrālem, form of mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/, [moˈr̺äːl̺e̞]
• Stress: moràle
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le

morale (masculine and feminine plural morali)

1. moral

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

• malore
• molare
• molerà

mōrāle

1. nominative neuter singular of mōrālis
2. accusative neuter singular of mōrālis
3. vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from English morale.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/

morale n

1. morale (“the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal”)

• Mostly used in a singular.

• moralista
• moralność
• morał
• moralizowanie
• moralizować
• moralnie

morale

1. locative singular of morał
2. vocative singular of morał

• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN